On Monday 19th September, Neg Earth Lights Limited will be closed as a mark of respect to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and her family.
We have, however, ensured that we will deliver our current clients’ needs on Monday with a core operational team in support on site.
Full operation will resume, as normal, on Tuesday 20th September 2022.
We join the country and commonwealth in a day of mourning and the celebration of our Queen’s reign.
Returning to Edinburgh Castle’s Esplanade after 3 years, The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo performed with the theme Voices under lighting designed by Adam Bassett.
Working closely with Technical Production Advisor, Keith Duncan, we provided over 427 lighting fixtures, 6.5km of cable, 8 distro racks, fibre network system and GrandMA3 control system.
Lighting Designer: Adam Bassett
Technical Production Advisor: Keith Duncan
Photos: The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
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It was a pleasure to supply lighting and rigging for Westlife’s 2022 Stadium Tour. Featuring the all-new Ayrton Cobra alongside Chauvet Colour M and SGM Q8 Flood strobes.
Produced by @247productions
Creative Directors @weareblackskull
Lighting Design @tim_routledge_lighting_design
Production manager @Tbyjhnsn
Lighting Programming: @polarised.reality @suluko.ltd
TV Programming: @morgantevans
Lighting Vendor @negearthlights
Special FX – @strictlyfxuk
Stage Manager: @savile
Photos: @timmsy @raykeoghmedia @andrew_takes_photos_
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It was great to see Jessie J in action on her tour of Europe this summer.
Rigged and illuminated by our equipment, the tour heavily featured fixtures such as GLP Impression FR10 Bars and SGM Q-8s.
Set & lighting design – @morgantevans of TRLD @tim_routledge_lighting_design
Lighting vendor – @negearthlights @gavinmaze
Tour Manager – @markpickard
Production manager – @jamesnecro
Lighting Techs – @_billycoates & Adam Millard
Set construction – @oxeventhouse
Set Carp – Luke Taylor
Production – @247productions
Photos/video credit: @starlitefestival @morgantevans
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Lady Gaga’s 2022 tour had a recent stop over at our HQ last week upon completing the European leg of the tour.
Our equipment has since been shipped over to Canada for @ladygaga’s recent performance in Toronto on Saturday, and travelled to Washington, DC to kick off her USA/Japan leg of the tour yesterday!
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A Happy Tuesday with awesome artwork!
Our team work hard to take care of equipment and when a few pieces returned to HQ from Rammstein’s tour for some TLC, we found one of our flight case’s had been personalised.
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Congrats to Woodroffe Basset Design for putting on a fabulous lighting show.
We hope Rammstein and all crew involved keep on rocking for the remainder of their 2022 tour in the USA!
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Jungle have been touring world-wide in 2022, illuminated by our technology leading lighting equipment and designed by Cassius Creative. Equipment on the tour included MAC Viper Air FX, MAC Aura XB, TMB Solaris LED and our new-in SGM Q8 creating the iconic staging and lighting that identifies the group. Jungle is set to complete the EU festival tour and go on to Australia and the USA later this year.
Images from Brussels gig, taken by Martin De Gennes (@MartinDeGennes)
Production & Lighting Design: Cassius Creative
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Glastonbury Festival 2022 has been the hot topic this month, and we are thrilled to have supplied an array of equipment along with a great crew to set up the lighting and rigging on The Pyramid Stage and The Other Stage. Taking place from 22nd-26th June 2022, Glastonbury has been one of the UK’s leading festivals for decades, with their first ever show in 1970.
The five-day festival held in Pilton, Somerset, celebrates performing arts and contemporary music, wowing the audience with legendary artists and new musicians taking to the stage.
Artists such as Sir Paul McCartney, Kendrick Lamar, Billie Eilish, Lorde, Megan Thee Stallion, Pet Shop Boys and Elbow performed on the two stages, illuminated by our lighting and immersive visual displays.
We would like to recognise the hard work of the crew, who contributed in creating many spectacular lighting performances for these iconic artists. Neg Earth Project Manager, Gavin Maze, attended the festival and captured the very essence of peace, love and rock and roll in his photographs.
We are fast approaching this year’s Kartfest, the annual karting day in aid of Backup Tech, The Technical Entertainment Charity.
Meet our karting team, Neg Earth, Wind and Fire. A team with grit and determination that plan to put us at the top of the leader board on 7th July.
Photo left to right: Fadil Abanur Rigging Technician, Zin Vaitiekunas Warehouse Operative, Josie Richardson HR Advisor, Ciaran Markey Senior Consoles Technician, Abi Roberts Digital Marketing Executive, Jake Williams IT Manager.
Join us in cheering for Neg Earth, Wind and Fire!
We feel privileged to raise money for such a fabulous charity that supports our industry. Find out more about Kartfest: Kartfest 2022 — Backup (backuptech.uk)
Let’s race.
Europe – Like many a band, Scottish rock superstars Biffy Clyro have just embarked on a busy summer of festival appearances with a headline slot at Download.
“The only way to spend the Summer,” said creative lead Richard Larkum, “And so it is, but a lumpy restart to all things touring has seen us need to devise four different scales of shows depending on where we are playing. We also have a leg in Germany coming up in August that demands another big system and I will revise yet again. It’s a constant thought process in that August is already in the back of my mind.”
A bonus for trucking companies as the four to five systems leapfrog their way around Europe, but for main suppliers Neg Earth Lights and Video Design it is quite a challenge. Production manager Jerry Hough described it succinctly while backstage at Download, “Every supplier is having a tough time at the moment with availability and finding crew. Fortunately, we have long term relations with both companies and that has been reflected in the excellent way we are being supported now. They have really stepped up to the mark. Talk to Alex at Video Design and you’d think this was a normal summer; that’s very reassuring on a festival schedule as complex as this.”
Larkum, meanwhile, has that ability to make it all sound easy. “Download was all LED based, lots of hi-def screen surfaces everywhere: a big upstage screen, on curved riser fronts and a number of hanging LED rectangles I refer to as the Tetris pieces. Lighting is also LED: Ayrton Khamsins, Robe Spiiders and GLP JDCs. As we left Download a slightly scaled down Scandinavian rig was already on the ferry to Norway while we flew out to Prague for our next show with rig version three. The start has been very successful, the prep of equipment from Neg and Video Design has been faultless. My lighting team led by crew chief Alex Peters have been fantastic. The band are really happy, the punters are loving it, and I’m really glad I’m back doing what I love.”
The show is based around the band’s two most recent albums, ‘Celebration’ and ‘Myth’. “The visual artwork of the covers has determined the look,” confirmed Larkum. “Based on Misty Buckley’s original design outlined before Covid interrupted our flow, what we have now all springs from those two sources. A high point of the shows is when James (the bass player) grabs a camera and feeds headshots to our video director Oscar Sansom. Video Design have added a paint strip effect via Notch onto our d3 (Disguise) server which I trigger from my Hog 4 console. It’s something that stems from the band’s own Instagram filter. The Notch effect does the same thing there, a blue strip across the eyes of the headshot for Celebration, a red strip for Myths. Lots of the fans in the audience recognise it immediately but it’s such a great effect the response is always huge.”
Despite the differences in system designs the show is as cohesive as it can be, the punters get an authentic, distinctive Biffy show. Interestingly, the changes in video disposition have seen Larkum adopt an asymmetric approach to lighting for the big system. “I’ve had to revise my thinking about focusing, it’s a different thought process than a symmetrical rig, but it makes a great impression, a world away from the more traditional all symmetric look of the older rock bands. Either way, the band always feels comfortable and familiar with whatever presentation package we build around them.”
Article Credit: et now
Photo Credit: Joe Guppy
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